Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

OWINGS MILLS, Maryland − One of the world's great collectors of his kind was nervous, just a bit so. Chad Shapiro gradually turned up the juice on his nearly 140-year-old light bulb. Its filament ...

Inventor Thomas Edison demonstrated his electric incandescent lights in public. He illuminated about 100 bulbs in and around his laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. Edison used a carbonized bamboo ...

General Electric is saying goodbye to the light bulb. The conglomerate is shedding a struggling business founded by Thomas Edison more than a century ago. The deal marks the latest step in dismantling ...

A modern scientific team has replicated Thomas Edison’s light bulb experiment and discovered it can produce graphene, a material unknown in his time. Using Raman spectroscopy, researchers confirmed ...

DALLAS -- Keys to the New Jersey lab where Thomas Edison invented the phonograph and some of the lightbulbs he perfected sold for more than $60,000 at auction Saturday. The keys sold for $10,625 at an ...

In a long-overdue decision, the city of Fall River will honor Lewis H. Latimer, the Black scientist who assisted Thomas Edison in inventing the lightbulb, The Herald News reported. Latimer passed away ...

TL;DR: Thomas Edison's 1879 light bulb is typically remembered as a milestone in electrification, not as a precursor to modern quantum materials. Yet by reconstructing that lamp with contemporary ...